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2006

Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Antimodernism

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"Surely You Don't Disbelieve": Tolkien And Pius X: Anti-Modernism In Middle-Earth, A. R. Bossert Oct 2006

"Surely You Don't Disbelieve": Tolkien And Pius X: Anti-Modernism In Middle-Earth, A. R. Bossert

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

The disruption caused by a war of ideas is detailed in this paper on Pope Pius X and the Catholic Church’s response to modernism in the early years of the century, and shows this controversy’s clear influence on Tolkien’s thinking in his letters and fiction.